Example sentences of "[verb] off in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 2 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 3 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 4 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 5 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 6 | UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error . |
| 7 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 8 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 9 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 10 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 11 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
| 12 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 13 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |
| 14 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 15 | They were guilty of lax marking as Scunthorpe took the lead from two crosses aimed without challenge , and weakened by Baker 's sending off in the 36th minute , a pathetic flourish of petulance . |
| 16 | Bruce Grobbelaar 's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive . |
| 17 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 18 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 19 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 20 | Real Madrid showed too much passion and had two sent off in the last 16 minutes of their UEFA Cup tie at Sigma Olomouc of Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | The 22-year-old striker , a £20,000 capture from non-League Burton Albion , scored the 48th-minute winner that sunk Charlton , who had striker Garry Nelson sent off in the 69th minute for swearing at a linesman . |
| 22 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury . |
| 24 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 25 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 26 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 27 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 28 | If you do , make a third column and ask the LH to say the first and second words in the " different " column , then the first and third , etc. , as you tick off in the third column the ones that are now different from the new no. 1 . |
| 29 | Cricket was just beginning to take off in the mid-19th century . |
| 30 | And as Switzerland began to run riot , Gough was sent off in the 84th minute for handling the ball as Knup threatened to break through again . |